NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 4 July 1924
4 JULY 1924
The second reading of the Seditious and Blasphemous Teaching to Children Bill was agreed to in the House of Lords, and the House also disposed of the Commons amendment to the Prevention of Eviction Bill.
Scottish Estimates were discussed in the House of Commons. On the vote for agriculture the Secretary for Scotland said that one of the most gratifying features of the Scottish Board’s work had been the response of agriculturists to the proposals for research. But millions of pounds were lost to the farmer annually because of the determined individualism of his methods of buying and selling. He urged farmers to prepare for continued competition from abroad by organisation at home.
A Paris telegram says that French opinion is beginning to concentrate, not without anxiety, upon the forthcoming Allied Conference in London.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, who is touring his constituency (the Aberavon Division), spoke hopefully of the coming Allied Conference, and said that one thing which the Labour Government had given the country during their five months of office was honest administration.
Notwithstanding the decision of the building employers to withdraw the lock-out notices, the operatives resolved to adhere to their decision to strike to-morrow failing an increase of wages and provision for a guaranteed week.
At the Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in London a resolution was carried – only some half-dozen delegates voting against it – urging the adoption of a liberal and generous Inter-Imperial Preference, as most desirable for furthering Imperial development and attaining the ideal of eventual freedom of trade within the Empire.
